Babel-17/Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany

He studied at the merit-based Bronx High School of Science, during which he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program.

ĭelany attended the private Dalton School and, from 1951 through 1956, spent summers at Camp Woodland in Phoenicia, New York. (He drew from their lives as the basis for characters Elsie and Corry in 'Atlantis: Model 1924', the opening novella in his semi-autobiographical collection Atlantis: Three Tales.) Other notable family members include his aunt, Harlem Renaissance poet Clarissa Scott Delany, and his uncle, judge Hubert Thomas Delany. Civil rights pioneers Sadie and Bessie Delany were among his paternal aunts. His grandfather, Henry Beard Delany (1858-1928), was born into slavery, but after emancipation became educated, a priest and the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church. The family lived in the top two floors of a three-story private house between five- and six-story Harlem apartment buildings.ĭelany was born into an accomplished and ambitious family. (1906–1960), ran the Levy & Delany Funeral Home on 7th Avenue in Harlem, from 1938 until his death in 1960. His mother, Margaret Carey (Boyd) Delany (1916–1995), was a clerk in the New York Public Library system.

was born on April 1, 1942, and raised in Harlem. Delany received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013, and in 2016, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction from the academic Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR Libraries. In 1997 he won the Kessler Award, and in 2010 he won the third J. įrom January 1975 to May 2015, he was a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Albany, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Temple University. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards over the course of his career, Delany was inducted in 2002 into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. His nonfiction includes Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, About Writing, and eight books of essays. His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 19, respectively) Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society. ' Chip' Delany ( / d ə ˈ l eɪ n i/, duh- LAY-nee born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic.

Babel-17/Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany